They’re outnumbered statewide, but Chicago has so many votes they retain control anyway.
In six months, I’ll take a wild guess that more than forty counties in Illinois have sanctuary status for gun owners. If they tell their sheriff and county law enforcement not to enforce it...the state can only rely upon the state police to handle this. I don’t see this going far. Chicago ‘thug’ handling may be attempted but the bulk of counties in the state (probably 80-percent of them) voted Trump in the last election. There’s a massive amount of public anger outside of Chicago.